Powers/Abilities: He is the ruler
of the Realm of Madness. He can transform into anything the insane could
think of. He can read the minds of the insane and manipulates them through
their fears. He can do this in their mind or by manifesting the fears into
tangible form. Everyone who goes crazy will at some point meet Dusk.

History:

(Marvel Comics Presents I#123/1-BTS) - Typhoid Mary haunted Dan Ketch in his dreams thanks to the
help of Dusk. She told him to stay Ghost Rider and lose his human half, but
he didn't want to listen to her. Her dream self disappeared when she
swallowed a pill in her real life. When she later went to the bathroom, Dusk
greeted her as Typhoid Mary through the mirror and asked her for a favor.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#124/1) - Dusk told Typhoid Mary that he could cure her in his realm.
She only had to drive Ghost Rider mad so that he would enter his realm.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#125/1) - Dusk sent demons into the shopping mall after the Ghost Rider
went slowly mad after spilling the innocent blood of Mary. Dusk himself found
an appropriate candidate for his plans. He attacked Billy the Security Guard
as Typhoid Mary and increased his fear and insanity by doing so.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#126/1) - Dusk tortured Billy through voices in his head until he snapped.
More of his demons were still entering the mall.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#127/1) - Once again posing as Typhoid Mary he attacked Ghost Rider when
he entered the Realm of Madness. The false body was shattered and Dusk
transformed into Dan Ketch to taunt Ghost Rider. The hero realized that his
enemy was Dusk and they fought each other. Dusk used a variety of forms until
the Ghost Rider fell from the guilt of spilling Mary Walker's blood. Dusk
let Ghost Rider feel the pain of his own penance stare and welcomed the hero
to the Realm of Insanity.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#128/1) - Dusk watched Ghost Rider walking around in the Realm of Insanity
and taunted him whenever he could. He sent many demons disguised as heroes
and villains of Earth against Ghost Rider. Meanwhile other demons followed
the orders of Dusk to drive the people in the mall insane. Typhoid realized
that Dusk didn't want to help her at all and entered the Realm of Madness
to find him.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#129/1) - Dusk saw the Ghost Rider losing his mind while fighting the
Necromancer. He was sure that he would gain a new warrior in Ghost Rider
for his war against Nightmare's realm. After Mary saved Eve from one of his
demons, Dusk punished her by using her fear of men against Mary. He let her
see Matt Murdock, Logan and her father again and this made Mary so afraid
that when Ghost Rider stood behind her she jumped down a cliff.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#130/1) - Ghost Rider defied Dusk and left with Mary and Eve the realm
of madness. Dusk followed them through the same portal and wreaked havoc
in the shopping mall. Andrea and her women attacked him and Father Tarsitino
tried to threaten him with holy words. Dusk followed him because holy men
were the ripest for madness. Ghost Rider saved Father Tarsitino from the
claws of Dusk who continued to fight the hero. Father Tarsitino blessed the
water in a toilet on the orders of Ghost Rider who then threw Dusk into the
toilet. The holy water burnt Dusk and he was flushed down the toilet.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#130/1-BTS) - Dusk returned to the Realm of Madness as its rightful ruler.
He didn't go after Ghost Rider again, but he soon found a worthy replacement
for him.

(Venom: The Madness#1) - Dusk felt a new madness through a portal to the
dreams of the mad. He tried to convince Eddie Brock that his bonding with
the alien wasn't symbiotic because one had always the advantage. Dusk continued
to haunt Venom in his dreams. He mocked him with his fears and promised him
that he would love Venom more the more insane he became.

(Venom: The Madness#2) - Venom went mad after he was infected with the Mercurial Virus and
Dusk was really happy about this. He ordered Paranoia to wait in the hypnagogic
limbo where Eddie Brock went when he tried to sleep. Necromancer got the
order to welcome Venom when he was in their possession. Dusk continued to
haunt Venom in his dreams and he was joined by the virus and other demons
of his realm. When Venom fought Juggernaut, Dusk opened a portal behind him
and Venom fell through it into the Realm of Madness.

(Venom: The Madness#3) - After Venom had defeated Necromancer and Paranoia he was attacked
by Dusk. Venom was surprised that Dusk looked like something that was flushed
down a toilet and survived. Dusk told him that Venom saw him the way he wished
Dusk to look. Dusk sent manifestations of Wolverine and Spider-Man against
Venom and looked on as Venom fought them. Venom beat them up and realized
that he could end this illusionary madness with one thought. Dusk said to
him that it wuldn't work because Venom was mad, but the madness of Venom
was gone and the manifestations of Dusk disappeared. Venom returned to Earth
while Dusk was sure that Venom would return because if Venom wasn't mad the
Realm of Madness would've destroyed him.

Comments: Created by Ann Nocenti and Steve Lightle,
look recreated by Kelley Jones and John Beatty.

Dusk didn't appear in the Nightmare mini although two demons of his realm
finally achieved his goal to take over Nightmare's realm. Probably he was
destroyed by Nightmare at a failed attempt to do the same.

Dusk gave himself some names associated with other demons of the Realm of
Madness in the MCP storyline. I don't know why he did it, but it sure didn't
make him more popular with his underlings. Claiming the fame for others'
work isn't the best way for a good climate between workers especially if
you are the boss.

I added all demons from the realm as his affiliates because he was the boss
of the realm.

Eve and Andrea's last names were revealed in Typhoid's profile in OHOTMU A-Z HC#12.

She was a radical feminist and hated all men just for being male. Mary Walker
and Eve were a part of her "Woman's Action Movement" group. She argued a
lot with men and tried to convince their wives to stand up against them.
The most times she just angered the men and their wives tried to defend them.
At the end of the day she got some help from Dan Ketch with packing up, but
she didn't like him like the other girls. She encouraged the other woman
to wage war against the men when the doors of the mall got locked after a
power failure. She armed herself with a hammer and waited for something to
happen. She saw in Mary a hero because she killed a man and tried to follower
her example. Together with a bunch of other W.A.M. members she searched for
an enemy/man. They found the sane spirit of Dan Ketch and attacked him. She
and her women stopped the attack when the sane spirits of Eva and Mary were
suddenly with Dan. She watched on as the spirit of Mary was fading away and
even thought about praying for her. She saw Ghost Rider return with Eva and
Mary. Andrea helped the son of the Tarsitino's when he was attacked by Dusk.
Together with her women she drove the monster away from the people.

--Marvel Comics Presents I#123/3 (124/3-126/3, 128/3-130/3

Billy the Security Guy

When he was a child his father left his mother for another woman. She taught
him to hate woman and he did so because he loved his mother. He became a
security guard at a shopping mall. Together with two colleagues he harassed
Mary Walker one night. Billy was just thrown into a wall, but his colleagues
died. Billy ran away through a window and met the wife and son of Louis
Tarsitino. He shot at them and everyone else he saw. They were women and
he hated them. Bat-like creatures scratched him and Billy ran away. He hid
in the shadows and Dusk felt his paranoia and attacked him as Typhoid Mary.
Billy lay on the floor in terror after the attack and remembered his childhood.
He heard voices in his head and stood up to find and kill all the women.
He watched Eve walking by, but she was already attacked by the bat-like creatures
and didn't die. When Typhoid Mary fought Ghost Rider again Billy saw his
chance to kill her. His bullets didn't hit. She sliced him with a dagger
and burnt him, ending his life.

--Marvel Comics Presents I#124/3 (125/3-126/3

Eve Martson

Eve was a young pregnant girl. She was alone and part of Andrea's W.A.M.
group. She talked to Dan Ketch when she saw him. She thought she knew him
from somewhere, but she couldn't remember from where. Thanks to her Dan stayed
to help the group packing up when the mall closed. In the bathroom she talked
to Mary about the "cute" Dan. After Mary killed two men she couldn't understand
why Andrea thought that Mary was a hero. She tried to stop Andrea from becoming
a killer herself. Eve searched for Mary when she suddenly disappeared. She
didn't find Mary, but a bunch of bat-like creatures found Eve and attacked
her. Delusion saved Eve from those creatures and brought her to the Realm
of Madness. Eve believed the words of the knight in shining armor and fell
for him. Mary arrived and mocked Delusion to free Eve from his influence.
At the same time the sane spirit of Eve was now together in the mall with
the sane spirits of Dan Ketch and Mary Walker. Typhoid showed Eve her past
and now Eve understood her. Dusk attacked them and drove Typhoid over the
edge. Ghost Rider brought Eve and the injured Mary back to Earth where they
all became one with their sane spirits again. Dusk followed them, but he
was defeated.

--Marvel Comics Presents I#123/3 (124/3-126/3, 128/3-130/3

Tarsitino family

Father Louis, his wife Sally and their son Matt went to the shopping mall.
Louis tried to stop the Ghost Rider when he attacked Typhoid Mary, but it
was too late. He watched as a portal opened to the Realm of Madness while
the Ghost Rider lost his sanity. Meanwhile his wife and son were threatened
by Billy the Security Guard, but they received help in Andrea and her group.
Louis found Ghost Rider on the other side of the portal. They got back from
the Realm of Madness, but portals now opened anywhere in the mall. Louis
tried to explain the happenings in a religious way. He watched as Typhoid
attacked Ghost Rider. Louis was pushed to the ground by Billy and saw him
die. Demons came from the ground and Louis grabbed the hand of Mary to save
her. She took the chance and Louis returned with her to the mall. Typhoid
brought him back to his family. They soon joined Andrea and her group at
the place where the sane spirits of Dan, Eva and Mary where. They watched
them return followed by Dusk who attacked everyone in the mall. Dusk followed
Louis who got some help from Ghost Rider. Louis blessed the water in a toilet
which finally defeated Dusk.